A few minutes ago, December 7, Mr. Linus Torvalds, father of Linux kernel, had the great pleasure of unleashing the fourth RC (Release Candidate) build of the upcoming Linux 4.4 kernel. Linux kernel 4.4 RC4 is now available for download from the usual places (see the download links at the end of the article), and, according to Mr. Torvalds, things are still calm and there's nothing stands out.

In numbers, the fourth Release Candidate version of the Linux 4.4 kernel consists of approximately 70% driver updates, especially for things like GPU, SCSI, sound, and networking, 15% networking updates, and 15% is split between core improvements, architecture updates, and others.